Step by Step Tai Chi - Segment 4 Video

Now one, raise the right leg, open up the fist, shift the weight back into the right leg, step back to the ball of the left, placing your left hand on the wrist of the right and just crouch over. Come back up, place the left foot out gently, shift your weight all the way into the left leg, winding up on the left side before you bounce back up, bring your right hand to the temple and extending the left-hand out in front of you. Now you want to shift your weight back into the right leg, turn in with the left, shift your weight into the left, drop the right hand to your fist; step around with the right leg, spinning the fist up. Now step through with your left leg, shifting your weight, relaxing the right palm and now chopping above the left arm. Cross over, if you want to step back with the left leg and then put all the way in your left leg and step forward with the right, setting the right foot down gently, relaxing, sinking all the way down and then using the right leg to help push the fingers out. Shift your weight back, wind up to the right gently and then turn in, keeping the right leg relaxed, stepping back but this time you are opening up your arms, dropping them down in front of you and bringing them up in front of you, crossing the wrists with the right on top. Now raise the right leg, open up the fist of the right hand as you step back and touch your wrist, you want to relax and exhale but all the weight sink down and as you go down, you want to feel like you are coming over like a zwinky. Come back up, inhaling, relaxing, stepping out, exhaling all the way, letting that energy sink all the way down and then letting the energy bounce back up into the palms bringing the right hand to the temple, left hand extending forward. Shifting your weight into the right leg, shifting the weight into the left leg, dropping the hand into the fist, stepping around, spinning the fist up, placing the left foot out, shifting the weight into the left leg, relaxing, exhaling, and then chopping above left arm. Now you want to cross over with the right, step back to the left, relax, don't forget to exhale all away, step forward, put all your excess breath out and then as you come up and push, inhale. Shift your weight back, relax, exhale and wind up and as you spin to open up, you want to wake up and inhale, turn in, step back to the left, down and relax, exhale, and as you come up in the palms, inhale. So with all the weight in the left leg, you want to pick up the right leg, place it down now and all that weight goes into the right leg, step back to the border left and you want your energy to shoot over like a zwinky, all the way down through your fingers and then come back up. Place the left foot out, shifting your weight all the way into the left leg, relaxing down to the left leg, winding up and then taking that energy that went all the way down and using it to bounce back up in the palms. Shift your weight into the right leg, use the right leg to pull in the left side and now shift the weight into the left side and use that left leg to spin open on the right side, slip the fist over, step through it the left, shift your weight all the way into the left leg and use that energy in the left leg to chop above the left arm with the right hand. Cross over, step back with the left, place the right foot back out in front of you. Let the weight settle all the way down into the right leg and use that energy to help push the fingers out. Shift your weight back, wind up, relax, exhale and you want to spin up, turn in the right leg, step back with the left. Don't forget to open up your arms, let them drop down in front of you and now inhale, bring them up and cross with the right in front. Shift your weight into the left leg, by lowering the arms, turning the right palm towards the floor; now step out behind yourself with the right leg, shifting your weight into the right leg, letting the left wrist float up to the shoulder and the turning in

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